Confirmatory factor analysis of combined Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised and Wechsler Memory Scale - Revised scores in a healthy community sample

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 339-344

  Bowden, Stephen C ^a   Carstairs, Jane R ^b   Shores, E Arthur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032837120     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.11.3.339     Document Type: Article

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